Meaning & use
fly
To move through the air using wings or an aircraft.
See it in a sentence
The geese fly south together every autumn before the first snowfall.
We flew to Tokyo for a two-week vacation last summer.
A note on using this word
Fly is irregular: flew is the past tense and flown the past participle, unlike regular verbs ending in -ed.
Words with a similar meaning
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A small flying insect with two wings, common around food and waste.
A fly kept landing on the fruit left out on the counter.
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